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Russian, French Firms Launch Joint Energy Venture


(RFE/RL) April 2, 2007 -- The French industrial group Alstom and Russia's Atomenergoprom have agreed to establish a joint venture to build turbines and nuclear reactors.

Atomenergomash is a subsidiary of Atomenergoprom, the state-owned company in charge of producing equipment for Russia's civil nuclear program.

Alstom said today in a statement that Atomenergomash is to own 51 percent of the new group, with Alstom holding the remaining 49 percent. The venture will be located in Podolsk, close to Moscow.

(AFP)

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